Amy Ellis Nutt

Amy Ellis Nutt is the author of "American Madness: 400 Years of Mental Illness and Its Treatment," to be published by Random House on April 27, 2027. Two of her books have been NYT bestsellers, "Becoming Nicole," and "The Teenage Brain," for which she was a co-author. Most recently Nutt was a science writer at The Washington Post where she concentrated on mental health and neuroscience. In 2011 she won the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing while working at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. Before that she was a reporter at Sports Illustrated for 9 years. She is a graduate of Smith College and has Masters degrees in Philosophy from M.I.T. and journalism from Columbia University. In 2004-2005 she was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University and has taught at Smith College as well as Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins and American universities. She lives in New Jersey.